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    It is not the case that The instrumentalist conception of retributivism should be rejected.

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    • 1.Punishment, not suffering, is the proper retributive desert object.
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    • 2.If the desert object is punishment rather than suffering, punishment is not a means to achieving the good of suffering, so the instrumentalist conception does not apply.
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